Question follow-through · 28692
Police: Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there have been Suffolk in each financial year since 2019.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there have been Suffolk in each financial year since 2019.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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